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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Potential jurors who were not selected to serve in the trial of a DC man accused of throwing a sub sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer expressed deep skepticism of the federal case. A group of eight dismissed jurors spoke to CNN Monday, questioning whether any jury

By Tami Luhby, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration said Monday that it will provide only half of the normal food stamp benefits for November by tapping into the program’s contingency fund amid the government shutdown. But recipients are not likely to see the payments immediately. Some $4.65 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Two former employees of cybersecurity firms that sold services helping companies combat hackers have been indicted and accused of participating in a conspiracy, outside of their day jobs, to hack multiple US firms and extort them for millions of dollars. The two men are accused of deploying ransomware used

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump littered his new “60 Minutes” interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked. We counted at least 18 inaccurate assertions. Trump told his usual lie that the free and fair 2020 election was stolen from him. He lied again

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department is dispatching federal monitors to polling locations in New Jersey and California, two Democratic states with crucial off-year elections on Tuesday. The announcement put the decadeslong federal monitoring practice under new scrutiny, as some Democrats and voting rights activists worry that this year’s monitors

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — For decades, Americans have relied on exit polls to illuminate the story of what happened on election night. By gathering opinions from voters largely after they’ve cast their ballots, exit polls fill in the details that our secret-ballot elections otherwise leave impossible to know. This year, for the first

By Michael Rios, Avery Schmitz, Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The US military has killed 95 people in strikes that have destroyed 26 boats as part of a campaign that Washington says is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States. There had been three survivors of those strikes, two of whom

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Native American leaders warned senators last week that mass layoffs and potential benefit lapses are making this government shutdown more painful for their communities and insisted that the federal government fulfill its treaty obligations with tribal nations. “The shutdown reductions in force have crept into our classrooms, our early

By Eric Levenson, CNN New York (CNN) — As a Jew and a New Yorker, Norman Needleman said he finds the city’s mayoral election “painful.” Waiting in line Friday to vote on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the 77-year-old Needleman thought Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist, would be good for the city’s social needs. But

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — One month after Jeffrey Epstein died in a jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, JPMorgan Chase reported to US authorities of more than one billion dollars in transactions it viewed as suspicious, according to newly unsealed court records. The notification was made on September 26, 2019,